Category Archives: Sol Survivor

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This article will help you in creating the layout of a level in the Sol Survivor Editor. If you need help getting started, check out the previous Getting Started post.

Terrain Generation

The Sol Survivor Editor uses rather unique terrain sculpting system. The Terrain is random, but you still have some controls to get it to behave how you want. We are going to start with Terrain Generation.

The terrain panel gives you the ability to create Terrain Nodes which push and pull at the terrain to create features where you want them. It also allows you to modify the generation parameters for the random terrain. Lets take a look at what each of these controls do:

Terrain Node Controls

Terrain Node – Create: Clicking creates a new terrain node under the mouse.

The Sol Survivor Editor FAQ is a work in progress. I am posting this Getting Started guide to help people dive in. If you have questions, please post them in the Steam Forums and I will reply there and update this post.

Getting Started

1. Locate Improv.exe in the Steam Game Directory

2. From the Entities Box, right click on the SolSurvivorEditor project and select Add New Entity

3. Name your new level, don't use any special case characters

4. Double click the level in the Entities list to open the Level Editor

Setting up your Level

Change the Environment type to one of the four possible choices. The Terrain will not generate under the Layout Tab until an Environment is selected.

Choose a Game Mode.

Survival and Wars do not require that you setup any Waves

All other game modes need you to setup the Waves that will attack the player in the Waves Tab